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...Drag City) 4/5 Stars Silver Jews frontman David Berman is a published poet (his 1999 volume “Actual Air” was released to much critical acclaim), and he brings his unique literary sensibility to each of the group’s records. Perhaps because of Berman’s strange proclivities, the Silver Jews have never achieved the (comparative) popularity of some of their alt-country contemporaries: Wilco and Ryan Adams especially. Berman savors the absurd, and his songs abound with bizarre characterizations and nonsensical turns of phrase. Berman’s genius is his ability...
...Line” is peppered with vivid eroticism. But then again, enjoyment of Jane Austen is not restricted to upper-middle-class bachelorettes, or Faulkner to Southerners. At home in Great Britain, Hollinghurst and “The Line of Beauty” have earned greater acclaim, including the 2004 Man Booker Prize. Whereas the gay classification has arguably narrowed Hollinghurst’s following in the United States, it has only provoked wider interest among British readers. When “The Swimming-Pool Library,” published in 1988, fell under England?...
...merit--"Purely empty, deeply bland and silly," says art critic Matthew Collings, author of This Is Modern Art. Others call it an uplifting tribute to womankind. But more interesting than the reactions it provokes are the ones it doesn't. If the sculpture has met with less than universal acclaim, it has also failed to spark much outrage or spray-paint protest. In that sense, Alison Lapper Pregnant may reveal a city and a society more comfortable with itself than it has been for a long time...
After the near-universal critical acclaim accorded to her debut film “Whale Rider” in 2003, director Niki Caro follows up on her breakout success with “North Country.” She looks slightly embarrassed when I address her as “Ms. Caro” and asks me to call her Niki. Caro sits down with The Crimson to talk about her life, her film, and her duty to tell the stories of great women. The Harvard Crimson: In your previous film, “Whale Rider...
...initially wary of putting the characters into a full-length feature. “Sometimes the fact that they’re short gives them their charm,” he says. After releasing 2000’s “Chicken Run” to universal acclaim, Park started contemplating ideas for a Wallace and Gromit feature. He’d already used Hitchcock in his short “The Wrong Trousers,” and paid homage to “Brief Encounter” in “A Close Shave.” He began...